r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak The Hist of the Short 20th Cent (1914-1991) • 1d ago
USSR ‘No to war!’ — Soviet poster (1970) showing a worker battling the American grim reaper, with the silhouettes of jets behind flying through an apocalyptic backdrop. Designed by Veniamin Briskin.
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u/CommissarRodney 1d ago
Fun inversion of the propaganda trope of depicting communists as skeletons.
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u/West_Rain 1d ago
9 years later, Let's do a war.
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u/One-Value-2358 1d ago
The majority of the top leadership actually didn't want to intervene in Afghanistan and refused to send troops the fisrt time it was brought up, it was a small part of the Politburo who later wanted to.
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u/Far-Investigator1265 1d ago
Already in 1970 they were arming North Vietnam in massive scale which led to several million dead.
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u/Logical-Confusion708 1d ago
Yea, let's stay passive while US arms counter-revolutionary forces around the world.
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u/NefariousnessSea9698 18h ago
Well well well, generalizing the whole soviets as russians huh?
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u/Taras_Kvas 5h ago
You should know that in Soviet Union there was a song "Do Russians want war?", so the above comment is correct. Soviet Union always was a chauvinist construct, Russian were considered "the big brother" (no connection to Orwell), and even ordinary Russian people expected people from other Soviet republics to look up to them. This world view was used by post-Soviet Russian propaganda to the fullest, and with great success.
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u/Candid_Push6949 1d ago
russians? ussr isn't russia
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u/Candid_Push6949 16h ago
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country
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u/Kind-Moose67 12h ago
That was completely dominated by the Russian SFR, with most the other “republics” breaking away and never looking back when they were allowed.
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u/Hour_Reserve 3h ago
By technicality Russian SFR also left Soviet Union, first by signing “Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR” and then when leaders of Russia-Ukraine and Belarus signed Belovezha accords followed by Alma-Ata protocol culminating in RSFSR leaving Soviet Union and renaming itself into Russian Federation. Yes they did become the continuation state (legal successor) of the USSR following that but it was still Russia leaving Soviet Union
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u/Decent_Mechanic384 1d ago
1979 soviet afghan war
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u/BreadstickBear 1d ago
1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
1956 invasion of Hungary
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u/grad1939 1d ago
1994 First Chechen war. (Technically not the ussr, but I've seen people refer to the ussr as just russia)
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u/PitifulEar3303 1d ago
Why Soviet always depict men like they about to do gay porn? lol
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u/Sharp-Difference8417 1d ago
Which is funny because the Vietnam and Korean War was a proxy way between them.
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u/Electrical-Put3639 8h ago
Soviets always was saying "NO" only to AMERICAN wars. Anyway, they started so many wars, as much as Americans. Typical hypocrisy
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u/YourGodStalin 1d ago
"No to war" as they literally started and funded just as much war as the US did.
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u/Floridaish0t 1d ago
Why does that guy have a huge ass?